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At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below. Author Jack Brink, who devoted 25 years of his career to "The Jump," has chronicled the cunning, danger, and triumph in t

American bison hunting -- History. --- Buffalo jump -- Alberta. --- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.). --- Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Great Plains. --- American bison hunting --- Indians of North America --- Buffalo jump --- Buffalo drive --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Bison hunting --- Buffalo hunting --- Big game hunting --- History --- Hunting --- Culture --- Ethnology --- indigenous, hunting, plains anthrolopogy, Alberta, bison traps, pre-contact archaeology. --- American bison. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.) --- Alberta